Heinrich Taegtmeyer, MD, PhD
Co-Director Division of Cardiology, UTMSH
6431 Fannin, MSB 1.246, Houston, TX 77030
713-500-6569; FAX 713-500-0637
e-mail:
heinrich.taegtmeyer@uth.tmc.edu Hospital affiliation: Hermann.
Academic appointment: Prof., UTMSH.
Medical school: U. Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany (MD, 1968); U. Oxford, England (D. Phil., 1981)
Specialty training: Boston City Hospital, Harvard; Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston
Certification: Am. Board Internal Med. (Cardiovascular Disease)
Specialty interests: Heart failure, diabetes, obesity.
Guillermo Torre-Amione, MD
6560 Fannin, Suite SM 1901, Houston, TX 77030
713-797-1620; FAX 713-797-1543
e-mail:
gtorre@tmh.tmc.edu Hospital affiliations: SLEH, Methodist, VA.
Academic appointment: Clin. Asst. Prof., Baylor.
Medical school: Instituto Technologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico, 1985.
Specialty training: Baylor.
Certification: Am. Board Internal Med. (Cardiovascular Disease).
Specialty interests: Heart failure and transplantation.
Bernardo Treistman, MD 6624 Fannin, Suite 2390, Houston, TX 77030
713-797-1620; FAX 713-797-1543
e-mail:
btreistman@cardiology-houston.net Hospital affiliations: SLEH, TCH, East Houston Regional Medical Center.
Academic appointment: Clin. Asst. Prof., Baylor.
Medical school: Cayetano Heredia (Peru), 1966.
Specialty training: THI.
Certification: Am. Board Internal Med. (Cardiovascular Disease).
Specialty interest: Interventional cardiology.
Donald Trillos, MD, FACC
6624 Fannin, Suite 2320, Houston, TX 77030
713-797-1111; FAX 713-790-0008
Hospital affiliations: SLEH, AMI Bellaire Gen., Doctors Hosp.-East Loop.
Medical school: National U. Colombia (Bogota), 1966.
Specialty training: U. Del Valle (Colombia), Tulane U., VA (New Orleans), Baylor, SLEH.
Certification: Am. Board Internal Med. (Cardiovascular Disease).
Specialty interest: Interventional cardiology.
Robert P. Walmsley, MD
6624 Fannin, Suite 2750, Houston, TX 77030
713-791-9514; FAX 713-799-8046
Hospital affiliation: SLEH.
Medical school: Baylor, 1982.
Specialty training: Baylor, THI.
Certification: Am. Board Internal Med. (Cardiovascular Disease).
Specialty interest: Interventional cardiology.
James T. Willerson, MD, FACC
President-Elect and Medical Director, Director of Cardiology Research, Co-Director of Cullen Cardiovascular Research Laboratories, THI
MC 1-191, PO Box 20345, Houston, TX 77225-0345
THI: 832-355-3710;
UT: 713-500-3010; FAX 713-500-3026
e-mail:
james.t.willerson@uth.tmc.edu Hospital affiliations: SLEH, Hermann, LBJ.
Academic appointments: Edward Randall III Chair, Dept. Internal Medicine, UTMSH; Alkek-Williams Distinguished Prof., UTHSCH.
Medical school: Baylor, 1965.
Specialty training: Massachusetts Gen. Hosp. (Boston).
Certification: Am. Board Internal Med. (Cardiovascular Disease).
Specialty interests: Clinical cardiology, coronary heart disease.
James M. Wilson, MD Director, Cardiology Education, THI
6624 Fannin, Suite 2480, Houston, TX 77030
713-529-5530; FAX 713-791-1786
e-mail:
jwilson@sleh.com Hospital affiliation: SLEH.
Academic appointment: Clin. Asst. Prof, Baylor.
Medical school: Tulane, 1990.
Certification: Am. Board Internal Med. (Cardiovascular
Disease, Interventional Cardiology).
Amy L. Woodruff, MD, FACC
6624 Fannin, Suite 2720, Houston, TX 77030
713-795-5014; FAX 713-795-4422
Hospital affiliations: SLEH, Methodist, Woman's.
Academic appointment: Clin. Asst. Prof, Baylor; Clin. Instuctor, UTHSC.
Medical school: Baylor, 1995.
Specialty training: Texas Heart Institute, Baylor.
Certification: Am. Board Internal Med. (Cardiovascular Disease); National Board of Echocardiography.
Specialty interests: Prevention of heart disease, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, women and heart disease, cardiac echocardiography.
Edward T.H. Yeh, MD
1515 Holcombe Blvd. Box 449, Houston, TX 77030
713-792-6242; FAX 713-745-1942
e-mail:
etyeh@mdanderson.com Hospital affiliations: SLEH, Hermann.
Academic appointment: Prof. Medicine, UTHSC.
Medical school: UTHSC (Houston).
Specialty training: UTHSC (Houston).
Certification: Am. Board Cardiology; Amer. Board Medicine.
Specialty interests: Cardiomyopathy, congestive heart failure, nuclear cardiology.
Antoine G. Younis, MD
6624 Fannin, Suite 2420, Houston, TX 77030
713-790-0400; FAX 713-799-2121
e-mail:
tonyyounis@yahoo.com Hospital affiliations: SLEH, Park Plaza.
Academic appointment: Clin. Asst. Prof., Baylor.
Medical school: French Faculty of Med. (Beirut), 1971.
Specialty training: Rochester Gen. Hosp. (New York), SLEH.
Certification: Am. Board Internal Med. (Cardiovascular Disease).
Specialty interests: Cardiac catheterization, angiography, interventional cardiology (coronary and peripheral).
Pierre Zoldhelyi, MD, FACC
Director, Wafic Said Molecular Cardiology and Gene
Therapy Research Laboratory, THI
1101 Bates, MC 2-255, Houston, TX 77030
832-355-3187; FAX 832-355-8030
e-mail:
zoldhelyi@aol.com Hospital affiliations: Hermann, LBJ, SLEH.
Academic appointment: Asst. Prof., UTMSH.
Medical school: U. Padua, Italy.
Specialty training: Montefiore Hosp. (NY); Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN).
Certification: Am. Board Internal Med. (Cardiovascular Disease).
Specialty interests: Coronary artery disease, echocardiography,
gene therapy.
